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Announcing a Special International Exhibit in Nancy : "Glass Art in Finland"
See all the photos of the exhibit at idverre.net
Finnish glass is world renowned for its quality of design and state of the art technology.
For the very first time in France, audiences will be able to view a collection of 150 pieces created by Finnish glass artists. They will be on display from March 10 to April 7, 2006 at the Departmental Council of Meurthe et Moselle.
The bridges and artistic links between this French Department and Finland are not lacking : the city of Helsinki being a part of the network of Art Nouveau cities along with Barcelona, Glasgow, Budapest and Nancy.
This is why the Pole Verrier, the Finnish Consulate of Nancy and the National Museum of Finnish Glass in Riihimaki have been working for the past several months to bring together the Lorraine region and the Hame region, the cradle of Finnish glass.
Thanks to this international exhibition, visitors will be able to experience the diversity and quality of Finnish glass through 150 original works by 50 artists still largely unknown in France, but many of whom are already enjoying international acclaim.
All the major glass techniques will be represented : glassblowing, fusing, slumping, painting, and even pate de verre to which one might think the Lorraine possessed exclusive rights...!

Arcverre, object / design
Seven new objects have been added to the design database :
Michel Gubri : Transformations
Michel Gubri (no title)
Carol Mile : Nuclear Familiy
Carol Milne : His and her aperitif glasses
Silvia Levenson : Something wrong
Silvia Levenson : Society debut
Sivia Levenson : Red cactus bag

Selected website : David Hering
The American artist David Hering is influenced by Italian techniques
http://www.davidhering.com

people in glass

Artists' portrait : John de Wit
John de Wit is a veteran glass artist based in the Seattle area and has distinguished himself as both a gifted glass blower and a painter of glass.  He is a pioneer in the use of high-fire enamel paints that he uses to create beautiful abstract designs on molten glass vessels. His work reflects a continuously evolving personal expressionistic style that is unique in the world of modern glass art.
In 2005 John de Wit received the Silver prize at the Cheongju International Craft Biennale in Korea and the “2006 Juror’s Choice Award” for Exceptional Artistic Achievement at the Bay Area Glass Institute Annual auction. This summer John will be teaching at The Glass Furnace, in Turkey.  John’s work is in the collections of the Corning Glass Museum, De Rosa Preserve, Microsoft Corp., Boeing Corp., and the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Wa. John current gallery representation includes the Foster/White Gallery in Seattle, Wa; Pismo Gallery in Vail, Co; Concept Gallery in Pittsburgh, Pa; and John Natsoulas in Davis, CA.
Read the complete portrait

network

The Glass Art Association of Canada is pleased to announce Looking Within, Reaching Out , a Canadian Glass Conference. This conference will be held at Red Deer College, in Red Deer Alberta from May 24-28, 2006.
There is something for everyone : studio demonstrations, artist presentations, pre-and post- conference workshops both at Red Deer College and at the Alberta College of Art and Design, a technical day, and a market place.
The Glass Art Association of Canada is a volunteer, member-run organization. We offer Canadian glassmakers, students, collectors and interested individuals a communication network through the publication of the Contemporary Canadian Glass, our quarterly journal, and GlassWire, our Internet-based electronic newsletter.
http://www.glassartcanada.ca/canadian-glass-conference.html

Glass exhibition ‘GLAS-S.BE’ in Antwerp
The ‘Association Internationale pour l’Histoire du Verre’ (AIHV) is organising her 17th international congress in Antwerp from the 3th till 10th of september 2006. During this period, a lot of activities on hystorical and contemporary glass will be held in and aroud the city. The Vlaamse Vereniging voor Glaskunstenaars (VVG) and European Glass (EG) are both active in the area of contemporary glass and together, they are setting up the exhibition ‘GLAS-S.BE contemporary Belgian glass’. On the premises of the Kolveniershof in Antwerp an extended and high quality overview is offered of the currently glass-art in Belgium. The exhibition is open from 2-09-2006 till 24-09-2006.
More information :
Secretariat VVG: 0032/15754154
Website : www.glas-s.be
E-mail: info@glas-s.be

competition

IV bienal internacional de ártes plásticas 2006
Artists can submit a maximum of two works, which should be original, and carried out using mainly glass. Combination with other materials is also allowed. The works submitted should not weigh more than 100 kilogrammes, and should be no greater than two metres and no less than 40 centimetres along any one of its sides. The technique and subject matter used are of free choice. For security purposes we recommend works be sent using wood or rigid recyclable packaging material.
Artists should submit dossiers between March 13 and March 26, 2006
A maximum of 15,000e will be awarded to acquire those works chosen by the Jury. These will form part of MAVA’s permanent collection
Contact : MAVA Museo de Arte en Vidrio Contemporaneo
Avda. de Los Castillos s/n. 28925 - Alcorcón - Madrid
Tel : +34 916102600

North Lands Creative Glass
Gulbenkia residency, 16 October – 8 December 2006
North Lands Creative Glass is offering four eight-week residencies for four talented glass artists from the UK. The North Lands Alastair Pilkington Studio enables the artists-in-residence to benefit from a wide range of facilities.
An equipment list is available on the North Lands web site
www.northlandsglass.com
Applications must be received by North Lands by 26 May 2006.
A selection panel will make the residency awards by 30 June 2006
Contact :
North Lands Creative Glass
Quatre Bras, Lybster
Caithness KW3 6BN
Scotland
Tel / Fax +44(0)1593 721229
E-mail : northlands@freeuk.com

Glassdressing, seventh international design competition purpose of the competition
Theme of the 2006 competition : glass jewel
The Trieste Contemporanea Committee announces the seventh edition of the international design competition "Trieste Contemporanea" with the objective of promoting the most original expressions in design from the countries of Central-Eastern Europe. The initiative is organized in co-production with the glass school "Scuola del Vetro Abate Zanetti" of Murano.
The competition is open to all designers born in, or who are currently citizens of, the countries adhering to C.E.I. (Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Ukraine) as well as Estonia, Germany, Latvia and Lithuania.
Projects and accompanying material must be delivered to the Committee by May 31st 2006.
Contact : Comitato Trieste Contemporanea
via del Monte 2/1
34121 Trieste, Italy
E-mail : tscont@tin.it
Further information

events

Ulrica Hydman-Vallien
The traveling exhibition opening now at the Finnish Glass Museum in Riihimäki shows art of Ulrica Hydman-Vallien, one of the best known Swedish glass artists. She has reached a wide public through her highly original art glass. But it was as a ceramist that she originally established her reputation as an artist with an entirely personal range of expression. Since 1972 she has produced glass for Åfors / Kosta Boda, producing not only a succession of unique works of art but also developing new techniques for crafting glass on larger scale. And Ulrica has succeeded in introducing an element of myth into her glass, thus making it classical in spirit, if not form.
Form March 17 to May 21, 2006

Vitrum : Glass between Art and Science in the Roman World
Archaeological findings and literary sources of the I century A.D. document a considerable production and use of glass objects in Vesuvian cities and numerous other centres of the Roman Empire.
Today in many museums, we can observe the extraordinary quantity and variety of these artefacts, usually exhibited to arouse admiration for their shape, colour and decoration.
The striking, progressive diffusion of glass objects, in reality, derived from a profound technological innovation tied to experimental investigations and, in several cases, to a theoretical discussion on the material's composition and its scientific functionality. The technique of glass-blowing and the attention that ancient philosophers devoted to explaining the ultimate composition of the material, favoured an extraordinary encounter between art and science, between the craftsman's manual dexterity and the philosopher's intellectual achievement.
From January 31 to August 27, 2006
at the Cité des Sciences
la vilette
Paris, France.
http://www.cite-sciences.fr/english/ala_cite/expositions/verre_romain

The face - Lost and found again
IInternational Contemporary Studio Glass
30 March-30 November 2006
Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung
Karl-Theodor Strasse 27
D-80803 München, Germany
Tel : +49(0)89-343856
Fax : +49(0)89-34 28 76
E-mail : info@atutsek-stiftung.de

A reminder from Carol-Jane
Subject : a Canadian Glass conférence : "You won't want to miss"
Looking Within - Reaching Out
Red Deer College
Red Deer, Alberta
May 24th-28th, 2006
www.glassartcanada.ca

Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka : the glass aquarium
Collection of sea creatures created in glass in the 19^th century by the German artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka
18^th March - 5^th June 2006
Glasmuseet Ebeltoft
Strandvejen 8
DK-8400 Ebeltoft
Tel : +45 86 34 17 99
Fax : +45 86 34 60 60
glasmuseet@glasmuseet.dk
www.glasmuseet.dk

Exhibitions and events in France :
http://www.idverre.net/voir/actuculture.php

Other events, from the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass website :
http://www.contempglass.org/events/calendar.html

press review

Publication : 500 Glass Objects : A Celebration of Functional & Sculptural Glass (Paperback)
The most magnificent collection of handmade glass creations ever assembled! Handmade glass objects are taking the craft world by storm with their great variety and beauty. Juried by Maurine Littleton, a gallery owner and distinguished presence in the studio-glass field, these 500 outstanding pieces capture the finest work done by top artisans worldwide. Cast your eye over flameworked goblets, cast vases, blown cups, and fused and slumped bowls. Jane Lee's stoneware Rainbow Bowl is a symphony of brilliant color, while Keith Weiss-Cole's graceful furnace-blown Sculpture of Two glows with
light. The magnificent techniques on display include mosaics, enameling, engraving, carving, and etching, and the unique shapes and eye-catching designs will amaze any art or craft lover.
Larks Books, 396 p., ISBN : 11579906931